market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on. my name is dan as i made this movie and there are a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has

experts on all those things and more not really one of them i'm happily married husband a father of two fantastic children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says. a lack of at a very is good. right. create works. creek. and can. see the evolution.

and. my ex will not be seeing tells us that other malfunction of this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it is a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene wealth for a very few well raining poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact

die in wars waged based on lies that profit a precious few over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology places corporate greed. and greed take back the popular phrase is not good now the question many within the occupy movement are trying to solve is this one what would world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed and how do we bring that world into being who cares what it is called call it socialism call it real democracy now call it chunky monkey cherry garcia the world needs to change radically needs to change dramatically and it needs to change fast. this

documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive change frankly because we need you yes. it's console bad well it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. that that was so i got to do is go the money is going to get fewer people there will. be four million you have six who want to hear that you know well that thirty percent of american families you know one percent of the wealth of ninety five percent of americans so now that

we've identified the problem broadly speaking what do you think the solution is raise your hand if you think the way our representative democracy currently functions bought and sold as it is by wall street and. offers a right ray of hope forward anyone to the very same pub anyone politicians know if they spout spend their competitor they don't know when they will win the election ninety four percent of the time. so. they have no fear of the american people they fear the people who are going to fund their campaigns right so that means that you me and just about everyone we know has very little say over who represents us and little to no influence over them once they get into office for a process is rigged to throw an enormous amount of money behind candidates in the two major parties and consequently choosing the lesser of two evils is something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of foreign by the people would be a funny joke it's a joke. and you know most everyone we know imagine

a world in which your single voice carried as much weight as the c.e.o. of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being it was going to be just not a good enough we will be looking at duke ellington just. everybody got this thing was just not the conductor he just didn't put the money. just yes that's democracy in action level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalizing for people in continues to be surrounded by because it draws such a stark contrast against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for thanks to occupy wall

street there is a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just calling people to participate in something you came up with but giving people the opportunity to create their selves and to be. a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered in this moment and it's also i think finally put the kybosh on let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and home. i think. it was. particularly much. i guess what you say is. but for all the government no

longer represents the people the people are going to take.

you. live. for. five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy wall street movement there would only be about fifty maybe two hundred or so occupying the space but at five thirty in the morning on the morning of october fourteenth two thousand and eleven several thousand people were gathered there wide awake why because mayor mike bloomberg had

declared that his own personal army his words the n.y.p.d. constituting the seventh largest army in the world would have victor occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were there are more than ideas and cardboard signs and an urgency to protect it and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to pull the space i had already gone to jail once since all of this started as an organizer with the october two thousand and eleven coalition i had been in washington d.c. in the early days of the movement and you can see me here after suggesting repeatedly inside the hart senate office building that we find other uses for the money we lavish on our homicidal bull geo political china shop and the foreign policy i was given to do not pass go go directly to jail card and in a few days i would be arrested again this time for protesting corporate personhood on the steps of the supreme court. and it would occupy movement all around the

world because we. are working people and. that jane joined us from the grave that we have the fact that the. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy supreme court not everywhere in my willingness to go to jail for the movement i was hardly unique and with the thousands that were in zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about to eclipse the previous one day record total of seven hundred protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge what was it that brought all of those people to music cotty that it may be an. to lose it in the traditional sense but this is a revolution in the life. of the losing end it's not going to be stuff like holy spirit games and pepper spraying kill millions it was playing music like including the you deliberately kill. in the first six months of the movie

about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things like why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in october were so many prepared to go to jail. who. you. thought. we were supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show park and then we took brooms and we took them to the to all street to co-create up wall street i think most of the problems with the filth was in the offices so we didn't get to but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized this the rest of the people like you know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country during that year's non violent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble uncredited spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering movement building experience an

antidote to the years of disempowering and williams free speech zone when it comes to be the move and yet civil resistance is but one part one tactic of the movement if you only saw the early stages of the occupy movement through the lens of the mainstream media you might think the movement was solely about clashes with the police. and realized everything in. the big picture.

good luck. was able to build a new. found anything mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. this is a problem. it was like the big elephant in the room and. they were really good. people really focused on this problem you certainly should be

able. to. choose to. choose the stories but in real life. and i can't or you don't want to set me up. like this why i get. in there you are inherently civilians to get excited when. i was young i thought

that. people that had nothing in anything strength there's no. law that everybody has served in iraq afghanistan like you looking much as. possible in afghanistan my mother didn't get our back. come home i'm a new york city my opinion your city and it. will be there is no british no honor and i don't see a million. lies. this is. a. police cruiser ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is an justifiably so a battle about

a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact the united states is only five percent of the world population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for this panic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail. between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent while spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population than it is to educate and. i think that's a great reason and the nand their head lock arms and you know i take you to jail

and you got to continue to do this i rather go to jail you know watch you continue to pull my brother my sister and my mom's going to body else that looks like me an arrest and i think it should be a scary thing not just for those oh you know people color minority but out of us there not that we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location your everyday reality may reflect the police state we live in two larger or smaller degrees but at least you have your health right at least you have your home. already made every job very issues like that which are so pfizer because some other . every two thousand one l.l. am profiting no matter what you're. taking place right now. my camera right. thank you you're welcome pal sometimes it demanding change on a large scale has to start with small groups of individuals saying enough is enough

like this group of individuals in western massachusetts who gathered in an attempt to stop bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. the fact is it's. a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope to operate like cowboys in the wild west and they responded by lassoing homeowners with these predatory lending practices when the housing bubble burst bank of america got bailed out and those with underwater mortgages were sold out so that c.e.o.'s like brian moynihan could collect the year end bonus of over nine million dollars a week lou with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a home that they should be able to stay in that home and it's not like they're not willing to pay this is the weirdest movement i've ever worked in this way and the foreclosure movement because we are begging people to take money and they won't take it of course occupy hardly invented foreclosure defenses people like grace and

high foreclosure organizations have been toiling away at this for years but when occupy wall street went to east new york in december to march occupy are more and more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to thank god. was. there. and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts because even smaller groups dr margaret flowers is among the nation's leading advocates for true health care reform health care reform that would eliminate the for profit insurance companies and provide medicare for all individuals in the united states a former pediatrician and congressional fellow dr flowers worked within the system for years after farm house i was traveling around the country and people kept saying how are we going to get single payer i was speaking around various states

and and i stoli it kind of came together like oh well unless you know as a as a movement even though we're in the majority of the population once a single payer system we're not going to be strong enough as a single issue. kind of movement to have that kind of political power health care is really part of a broader social economic justice movement anyway and so we really need to come together bring our strengths together combine our strengths to have the power and so i know this in my talks i was starting to shift more into you know calling for a broader movement as a core organizer of the october two thousand and eleven coalition that occupied freedom plaza in washington d.c. dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington for health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on my cell phone was a good i don't care that we need

a national health service i did i acceptable. practice because they can provide was my was out i was. fine i think you're going to have a snow cave the way you are right. it . sounds pretty on the street and join protesters picketing outside where adair a scarlet shared her story of why health care was literally a life and death issue i came here because. for my father's part i was full of it suicide shocks so it had every state but because prior life did have

enough money to pay for health care i just take care of it and invited half the cost my sister and myself chris fifty four years old this is the most considerate suicide i've ever heard of and he had to put sticky notes on everything he had borrowed from anybody saying you know we turn this for this person and cetera et cetera everything that could possibly be good night work on my passport sharon stone said please tell me where my car five dollars will have to find. her baby and it was he says i'm sure you understand this is something i have a whole you know without but simply not i'm sure that's why i'm here on this forum can you not heard people like every person that for lack of access to health care somethings father or son or daughter thank you take a stand up not only for my father but for all those like. you have.

it is. it is. a public a thank you think even though my mortgage is underwater and my health care costs are going through this here is america i'll just pull myself up by the bootstraps and get to work nose to the grindstone will solve all ills but be careful out there if you haven't noticed there is a war on workers well underway between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and eight the average income of the bottom ninety percent remained effectively unchanged at thirty one thousand dollars per year in that same time span the average income of the top one percent went four hundred thousand dollars to over one point one million dollars per year so much for trickle down economics in one thousand nine hundred a c.e.o. made forty two times that of an average employee by two thousand and ten to see

those were earning three hundred forty three times workers median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one nine hundred forty five millionaires get a tax rate of sixty six percent in two thousand and ten millionaires effective tax rate was thirty two percent your corporation things look even better bank of america holds over two point two trillion in assets and pays less in taxes than the average american household in two thousand and ten more than five point two billion dollars in profit and was awarded a tax refund three point two billion dollars citigroup has not paid taxes in the last four years and yet in the wake of the financial crisis they are deemed too big to fail and received four hundred seventy six billion dollars in taxpayer bailout money and goldman sachs has spent twenty two million dollars in campaign contributions and twenty one million dollars in lobbying. it's in the past decade

and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. for a. one person thank you thank you thank you thank you was a. cut if you think of the excuse that was immaculate to me like you. think i was the excess of two thousand. was a yes q but one could send out if you want to get a bit bigger than twenty five years of the nothing but greed. we've been working to . clean to keep people in this little bit that they could put up with to keep it in

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